Fried Dill Pickles

by John Pasden

10 Jul 2008

I’m enjoying being home in Tampa without much to do. My dad’s computer doesn’t have Chinese support installed, and the option to add it is grayed out in the appropriate Windows setting screen. I think I can get it installed if I manage to find the Windows install disk, but taking a 10-day vacation even from Chinese characters themselves almost seems like a good idea.

So last night I was having a few $3 pints of Sam Adams (so much cheaper than in Shanghai!) with my sister and her friends, finding out all sorts of new ways I’ve fallen out of touch with American culture, when I discovered the bar served fried dill pickle spears. Of course, I ordered them immediately, and they were delicious in that weird “fried pickle” way that you might expect. (I’d post a picture, but there’s not much point, because they just look like big french fries.)

Comments

Nice to hear your safe and sound, The whole visa thing is annoying but im going to wait until the games are well over before returning to China.
Enjoy all the foods that are hard to get in Shanghai, like good lasagna.

I felt the same way about being out of touch with American (especially pop) culture when I would come back from China. More so when I lived in Xi’an than in Shanghai. I was in Xi’an during the time when the term “metrosexual” was the rage. I came back for a visit and took me a little while to figure out what it meant, haha.

And every time I’m on a public computer or a relative’s computer here in the US, it’s a pain in the butt with no Chinese. Although for you, I’m sure a break from it is good.

Since when are fried pickles pop culture? They’d be pop culture only if they were all the rage among 14-year-olds. Being served in a bar that serves Samuel Adams on tap just makes them some kind of yuppie trend.

Sam Adams on tap means yuppie? Up in Boston, Sam Adams is the equivalent of Bud. Now when you find Chimay on tap……..

FYI, now that Bud is being bought out by some Belgian company, does that mean we’ll find Bud Lite in the Belgian beer section of liquor stores? Sam Adams is actually now the largest domestic-owned brewery in the US!